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Open AccessGenome-wide identification of quantitative trait loci and candidate genes for seven carcass traits in a four-way intercross porcine population
Carcass traits are essential economic traits in the commercial pig industry. However, the genetic mechanism of carcass traits is still unclear. In this study, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS...
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Open AccessGenetic introgression from commercial European pigs to the indigenous Chinese Lijiang breed and associated changes in phenotypes
Gene flow is crucial for enhancing economic traits of livestock. In China, breeders have used hybridization strategies for decades to improve livestock performance. Here, we performed whole-genome sequencing o...
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Calculation of Voltage Stability Margin Considering Volt/Var Control Types of Photovoltaic Power Plants
With the increasing penetration of photovoltaic power plants, research on the voltage stability of power systems under different control types has become a significance issue. Firstly, this paper analyzes the ...
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A Leaner Government and a Better Administrative Accountability System
A leaner government has political, economic and legal implications. In the context of advancing the reform and the rule of law as decided by the central government, government streamlining will significantly p...
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DualBLN: Dual Branch LUT-Aware Network for Real-Time Image Retouching
The 3D Lookup Table (3D LUT) is an efficient tool for image retouching tasks, which models non-linear 3D color transformations by sparsely sampling them into a discrete 3D lattice. We propose DualBLN (Dual Branch...
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SCOAD: Single-Frame Click Supervision for Online Action Detection
Online action detection based on supervised learning requires heavy manual annotation, which is difficult to obtain and may be impractical in real applications. Weakly supervised online action detection (WOAD)...
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Open AccessGenome-wide association study identifying genetic variants associated with carcass backfat thickness, lean percentage and fat percentage in a four-way crossbred pig population using SLAF-seq technology
Carcass backfat thickness (BFT), carcass lean percentage (CLP) and carcass fat percentage (CFP) are important to the commercial pig industry. Nevertheless, the genetic architecture of BFT, CLP and CFP is still...
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Open AccessMaternal-derived antibodies hinder the antibody response to H9N2 AIV inactivated vaccine in the field
The H9N2 subtype avian influenza virus (AIV) inactivated vaccine has been used extensively in poultry farms, but it often fails to stimulate a sufficiently high immune response in poultry in the field, althoug...
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Spatiotemporal Specific Blocking of Plasmodesmata by Callose Induction
Plasmodesmata are nanoscale cell wall channels connecting neighboring cells in plants. Intercellular trafficking of molecules via plasmodesmata plays important roles in various developmental processes and stre...
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Research on Attitude Control Technology of Aircraft Based on Extended State Observer
In this paper, an extended state observer (ESO) is established for the linear model of aircraft with small disturbance, considering wind disturbance, structural disturbance, model uncertainty and measurement n...
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Structural Characterization and NO Generation Characteristics of Coal Char under O2/CO2 Atmosphere
The evolution of pore structure and functional groups of coal char in different stages of Shenhua coal combustion process in O2/CO2 atmosphere was studied by the low temperature nitrogen adsorption method, the sc...
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Integrated Energy Market Mechanism and Integrated Energy Service Design
The emergence of an integrated energy market provides new opportunities for the liberalization and flexibility of integrated energy trading. However, the design of the integrated energy market and the integrat...
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Publisher Correction: Sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates plasmodesmal ultrastructure and phloem unloading
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Sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates plasmodesmal ultrastructure and phloem unloading
During phloem unloading, multiple cell-to-cell transport events move organic substances to the root meristem. Although the primary unloading event from the sieve elements to the phloem pole pericycle has been ...
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Open AccessDucks induce rapid and robust antibody responses than chickens at early time after intravenous infection with H9N2 avian influenza virus
Compared with chickens, ducks are normally resistant to avian influenza virus without clinical signs while they habor almost all subtypes of influenza A viruses. To date, however the mechanism for duck anti-in...
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Multi-objective Optimization and Design of LEO Satellite Broadband Networks
In this paper, a multi-objective optimization design methodology of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband network is proposed. Firstly, the quality of service (QoS) metrics and network stability factor (NF...
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An Optimization Deployment Methodology of HAP-VMIMO Broadband Communication Network with Matching the Demand Distribution
Aiming at the optimal design of the space information network with the usage of high altitude platform (HAP) as base station, this paper proposed a multi-objective optimal deployment methodology for HAP broadb...
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Open AccessNIN-like protein 8 is a master regulator of nitrate-promoted seed germination in Arabidopsis
Seeds respond to multiple different environmental stimuli that regulate germination. Nitrate stimulates germination in many plants but how it does so remains unclear. Here we show that the Arabidopsis NIN-like pr...
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Open AccessAtomic-layer soft plasma etching of MoS2
Transition from multi-layer to monolayer and sub-monolayer thickness leads to the many exotic properties and distinctive applications of two-dimensional (2D) MoS2. This transition requires atomic-layer-precision ...
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Growth of erbium dihydride films under low hydrogen pressure by pulsed laser deposition
Erbium dihydride thin films were prepared by pulsed laser deposition on Si(100) substrates using erbium target under different low hydrogen pressures. The properties of these films were examined by atomic forc...
